(a.) Appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away; dimidiate.
Example Sentences:
(1) This activity scheme uses as its base, dose potency measured as TD50, the chronic dose rate that actuarially halves the adjusted percentage of tumor-free animals at the end of the study (Gold et al., Environ.
(2) The Lords will vote on three key amendments: • To exclude child benefit from the cap calculation (this would roughly halve the number of households affected).
(3) The world has also met the target of halving the proportion of people without access to improved sources of water , and it has achieved parity in primary education between girls and boys .
(4) The two halves of the glans are brought to the midline, thus covering the glanular urethra, and producing a normal appearing glans.
(5) Of particular interest was the establishment of the linkage between the two monomeric halves of the molecule and determination of the location of the phenolic hydroxyls.
(6) Citing figures that predicted already falling costs of renewables and battery storage would halve again in the next five years, Shorten predicts “consumers not governments” would drive the energy change.
(7) If adopted, the proposals would halve the numbers of households defined as being in fuel poverty.
(8) With the mobilization of the two halves of the face it is possible to approximate the orbits, simultaneously elongating the center of the face and normalizing the maxillary alveolar ridge.
(9) Further binding of one molecule of aldolase for each strand of 280 actin monomers halves the apparent viscosity of the alfa-actinin-F-actin system without any desorption of alfa-actinin.
(10) The procedure involves bisection of single-cell eggs in a medium containing cytochalasin; fusion of egg halves with single blastomeres, induced using Sendai virus or an electrofusion apparatus; and embedding in agar, followed by culture of the reconstituted embryos in the ligated oviducts of ewes in dioestrus.
(11) However the NCPO did prosecute 56 people for the crime of criticising the monarch, with one man sentenced to 60 years – which was later halved – for Facebook posts.
(12) An unbelievably convenient boost to demand in this country – and indeed to all economies that are major importers of oil – has come in the nick of electoral time from the halving of the world price of crude.
(13) When low- or high-frequency words were presented separately in distinct halves of a recognition-memory test, the relatively liberal response bias for high-frequency words was diminished.
(14) For example, a 2010 Cochrane review concluded that telehealth in heart failure reduced death rate by 34% but now – when we include several large negative trials – this figure is halved.
(15) HP exposed to 10 mg tissue eq of either bovine pineal fraction A1 or bovine pineal fraction A3 released 88% and 63%, respectively, less PRL than did their corresponding untreated control halves incubated in Krebs-Ringer Bicarbonate (KRB) medium.
(16) When optic fibres from NN, TT or VV eyes grew into inappropriate rostral, caudal or lateral tectal halves respectively, there was a projection deficit in the nasal and temporal or in the dorsal and ventral poles of the visual field.
(17) Detachment of the plasma membrane from glutaraldehyde-fixed cells exposed the cytoplasmic surface of the acrosome to the lectin markers; freeze-fractured halves of the acrosomal membrane were marked by "fracture-label" (Aguas, A. P., and P. Pinto da Silva, 1983, J.
(18) In another patient, the dose of insulin was halved, and his graft function was classified as partial.
(19) As current aid levels stand, the first Millennium Development Goal to halve the number of people who suffer from hunger would "slip through its [DfID's] fingers and further out of reach", says the report, which opens with a message from Boyzone singer Ronan Keating, a UN FAO goodwill ambassador.
(20) Most interneurones have branches only in one half of the ganglion, but one interneurone has extensive and asymmetrical regions of branches in both halves of the ganglion (fig.
Valved
Definition:
(a.) Having a valve or valve; valvate.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
(2) External phonocardiography performed at the time of cardiac catheterization revealed that this loud midsystolic click disappeared whenever a catheter was positioned across the mitral valve.
(3) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
(4) Valve-related complications were noted in four patients.
(5) Digestion is initiated in the gastric region by secretion of acid and pepsin; however, diversity of digestive enzymes is highest in the post-gastric alimentary canal with the greatest proteolytic activity in the spiral valve.
(6) The aortic area (Torlin) for diseased stenotic aortic valves was calculated in 10 patients using two different methods; data obtained in preoperative cardiac catheterization and by intraoperative flowmetric and aortic and left ventricular pressure-recording measurements, and their mutual correlation was tested.
(7) He underwent a mitral and aortic valve replacement, followed by a complicated postoperative course.
(8) In addition, spontaneous platelet aggregation is increased when vegetations are present on cardiac valves.
(9) This report represents the first comprehensive description of instantaneous and continous phasic blood velocity at the mitral valve during atrial arrhythmias in man.
(10) This study demonstrated that significant global and regional ventricular dysfunction develops immediately after removal of the papillary muscles, whereas myocardial contractility is preserved in patients undergoing mitral valve repair.
(11) The autopsy findings in 41 patients with University of Cape Town aortic valve prostheses were studied.
(12) This developed concept of "valve only" energy loss has the potential of standardising the findings of different research groups by removing the arbitrary selection of measurement points from reported results.
(13) The organisms were predominantly associated with host deposits of erythrocytes, phagocytes, platelets, and fibrinous-appearing material, which collectively appeared on the valve surface in response to trauma.
(14) Autopsy revealed a primary intimal sarcoma with osteogenic elements arising in the posterior leaflet of the pulmonary valve and obstructing the main pulmonary artery and its right branch.
(15) With a series of 117 aortic valve replacements, the authors have examined the results in relation to the method of protecting the myocardium while the aorta is clamped off.
(16) Left ventricular rupture is a serious complication of mitral valve replacement.
(17) Any type of valve element can serve as the expiratory valve.
(18) Echocardiographic findings included an abrupt midsystolic, posterior motion (greater than 3 mm beyond the CD line) in five patients, multiple sequence echoes in six, and posterior coaptation of the mitral valve near the left atrial wall in six.
(19) A block of tissue bounded by the ostium of the coronary sinus, the pars membranacea, the septal leaflet of the tricuspid valve and the atrial and ventricular septa is removed.
(20) A case of tricuspid valve endocarditis with spinal epidural abscess caused by Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans is reported in a 74-year-old male with an endocardial pacemaker.